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Injustice American concentration camps 110,000 Japanese-Americans incarcerated during WWII. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 487] murdered after being falsely accused. [Br. Lit.: Titus Andronicus] (1825–1904) his brand of justice was the only “law west of the Pecos.” [Am. Hist.: WB, 2, 137] wrongly accused of attempted murder. [Am. Lit.: Ben Hur, Hart, 72] a fortune is dissipated by the long legal battle of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, and the heir dies in misery. [Br. Lit.: Dickens Bleak House] (1754–1817) naval officer accused of practising unfair and illegal cruelties. [Br. Hist.: EB, II: 82; Am. Lit.: Mutiny on the Bounty] Jew falsely accused of ritual murder in Russia. [Am. Lit.: The Fixer] courtmartialed and unjustly hanged as mutineer and murderer. [Am. Lit.: Billy Budd] defendants brought before the Vehmgerichte. [Ger. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 166] decision majority ruling by Supreme Court that a slave is property and not a U.S. citizen (1857). [Am. Hist.: Payton, 203] (1859–1935) imprisoned on Devil’s Island on falsified espionage charges. [Fr. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 60] wife; taken to underworld before her time. [Gk. Myth.: Magill I, 700–701] law clerk commits forgery for an unselfish purpose, is imprisoned, barred from work, eventually commits suicide. [Br. Lit.: Galsworthy Justice; Magill I, 466] name given to a rapacious breed in Rabelais’s violent satire on the venality of the courts. [Fr. Lit.: Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel] falsely accused by stepmother of rape after he rejected her advances. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid; Metamorphoses] symbol of injustice. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 174; Kunz, 330] Scottish version of lynch law. [Scot. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 468]
among other rulings, prevented interstate travel by Negroes. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 485] though innocent of any crime, he is arrested, condemned, and executed. [Ger. Lit.: Kafka The Trial in Benét, 1023] moblike tribunal, usually disregarding principles of justice. [Pop. Culture: Misc.] “hang first; try later.” [Br. Hist.: Espy, 160] (1736–1796) personification of mob law, summary execution. [Am. Hist.: Leach, 561] falsely accused of Bassianus’ murder. [Br. Lit.: Titus Andronicus] Indian tribe driven off homeland. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 515] in revenge for having supposedly rustled cattle and killed a man, three suspects are lynched. [Am. Lit.: The Ox-Bow Incident] “first the sentence, and then the evidence!” [Br. Lit.: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland] punished for crimes he never committed. [Br. Lit.: Darkness at Noon] accused and executed for murder (1927); their guilt has been largely disputed. [Am. Hist.: Allen, 59–61] unfair revenue law imposed upon American colonies by Britain (1765). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 475] imprisoned nineteen years for stealing loaf of bread. [Fr. Lit.: Les Misérables] medieval Westphalian tribunals; judges abused juridical powers. [Ger. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1124] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations. This will be evident from particular instances, if we apply the names used to denote the other categories; for instance, granted that justice is the contrary of injustice and justice is a quality, injustice will also be a quality: neither quantity, nor relation, nor place, nor indeed any other category but that of quality, will be applicable properly to injustice. "You do me a grave injustice," said the Boss, parting with a pair of tears. |
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